Majak Daw rape denial 'a script', court hears

AFL player Majak Daw was "on a script" when he said sex acts with a 15-year-old girl in 2007 were consensual and told a jury five times that the young woman was "in control" the night he allegedly raped her, the crown says.

Prosecutor Andrew McKenry told the Victorian County Court on Tuesday the woman who accused Daw of raping her outside a party when he was 16 was a witness of truth who was supported in her evidence by her then-best friend who discovered the pair.

Daw, now 24, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape in a trial that continues before Judge Mark Dean.

Mr McKenry told the jury inconsistencies in the young woman's account of the night could be explained by the passage of time, but her memory of the alleged rape had crystallised in her mind because of its significance.

"She told the truth and she did so reliably," Mr McKenry told the court.

"She left no room for the suggestion that she was agreeing to what Mr Daw had done."

He said the alleged victim was convincing not only in what she said, but in how she said it.